The anatomy of melancholy vvhat it is. VVith all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and seuerall cures of it. In three maine partitions with their seuerall sections, members, and subsections. Philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut vp. By Democritus Iunior. With a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.

SVBSEC. 3. Division of the Diseases of the Head.

THese Diseases of the Minde, forasmuch as they haue their chiefe seat, and Organs in the Head, are commonly repeated amongst the diseases of the Head, which are divers, and vary much according to their site. For in the Head, as there be divers parts, so there be divers grievances, which according to that division of t Hernius, which he takes out of Arculanus, are inward or outward (to omit all others which belong to the Eyes and Eares, Nostrils, Gummes, Teeth, Mouth, Palat, Tongue, Wesell, Choppes, Face, &c.) belonging properly to the Braine, as baldnesse, falling of haire, furfair, lice, &c. u Inward belonging to the skinnes next to the Braine, called durae, and Pia mater, as all head∣aches, &c. or to the Ventricles, Caules, Kells, Tunicles, Creekes, and parts of it, and their passions, as Caro, Vertigo, Incubus, Apoplexie, Falling Sicknesse. The diseases of the Norues••;, Crampes, Stupor, Convulsion, Tremor, Palsye: or be∣longing to the excrements of the Braine, as Catars, Sneezing, Rhumes, Distillations: or else those that pertaine to the Sub∣stance of the Braine it selfe, in which are conceiued, Frensye,

Lethargye, Melancholy, Madnesse, weake Memory. Sapor, or Coma, Vigilia & vigil Coma. Out of these againe I will sin∣gle such as properly belong to the Phantasie, or Imagination, or Reason it selfe, which x Laurentius calles the Diseases of the Minde; and Hildisheim, morbos Imaginationis, aut Ratio∣nis laesae, which are three or foure in number, Frensye, Madnes, Melancholy, Dotage, and their kindes: as Hydrophobia, Ly∣canthropia, Chorus sancti viti, morbi daemoniaci: which I will briefely touch and point out, insisting especially in this of Melancholy, as more eminent then the rest, and that through all his kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, cures. As Lo∣nicerus hath done de Apoplexiâ, and many others, of many such particular diseases. Not that I finde fault with others which haue written of this subiect before, as Iason Pratensis, Laurentius, Montaltus, T: Bright, &c. they haue done well in their severall kindes and methods, yet that which one omits, another may happily see; that which one contracts, another may enlarge. To conclude with y Scribanius, that which they haue neglected, or perfunctoril y handled, we may more thorough∣ly examine, that which is obscurely deliuered in them, may be perspicuously dilated and amplified by vs; and so may bee made more familiar and easie for euery mans capacity, and common good, which is the chiefe end of my Discourse.

Notes

• t

  Praefat. de morbis capitis. In capite vt va∣riae habitant par∣tes, ita variae querela ibi eve∣niunt.
• u

  Of which reade Hernius Montaltus, Hil∣disheim, Quer∣cetan, lason Pra∣tensis &c.
• x

  Cap. 2. de Me∣lanchol.
• y

  Cap. 2. de Phi∣siologiâ sagarum, quod alij minùs rectè fortasse di∣xerint, nos exa∣minare, meliùs diiudicare, corri∣gere studeamus.